Citations and references to internal and external sources

[SilberWitch]

This NIP defines both:

1. How Nostr references should work
2. Events for documenting sources material, within and without of Nostr

[SilberWitch]

For clarification, the "quote" mentioned in the NIP are not Nostr-style quotes or highlights, but rather in-line insertions of material, within a research paper or other academic work.

[SilberWitch]

What is open, is how to define how the citation should be rendered.

I was thinking some scheme, like some of the markup standards have, like

[[footnote:nevent018472...]]
[[inline-ref:nevent18478...]]
[[endnote:
[[quote:
[[prompt-inline:
[[prompt-full:

Or something. Open for better ideas.

[SilberWitch]

The most obvious implementation of ex-event citations is in NIP-62 Curated Publications, such as research papers.

Then you could create one citation and link it inline or as a footnote, in shortened form, and have it appear in full-format in at the end of the publication and have it displayed in full-format on hover, and clicking on it, in the main text, would take you to the endnote-style entry at the end.

And from there, you could search Nostr (and/or the Internet) for other papers with a similar or related citation.

[buttercat1791]

General thoughts:

For web citations, APA, Chicago, and MLA all require some combination of author, page title, website name, date, and URL. How would you cite Nostr in one of these formats? Site name doesn't quite apply, so I propose using Nostr: followed by the publication title in quotes (if applicable) or a brief description, not in quotes, of the topic of the discussion from which the citation is drawn. That's the only weird piece; otherwise, it's pretty easy to provide the information needed to cite Nostr events according to traditional formats.

For books or for journal publications, formats vary more widely by the types of information included. Some include page numbers, some don't, for instance. I've offered some suggestions of optional tags to use for hardcopy citations that would fill some of the gaps. Ideally, a Nostr citation of a hardcopy publication would include as much information as possible, so that the citation event could be easily parsed into any of the standard citation formats (APA, Chicago, MLA, etc.).

[SilberWitch]

Okay, @vitorpamplona @buttercat1791 integrated your changes and made an attempt at a markup scheme.